What's the best way to migrate win10 OS partitions from HDD to SSD?

[Sonansune]

Yesterday night, I installed a 128GB MSATA III SSD to my laptop and try to set it as the primary drive.

I have tried to clone the OS with this tool: http://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html
and there are a few problems after the clone job is done: the SSD doesn't show up in the bios menu with UEFI mode, and in legacy mode, I can't even boot into win10 from either of them...


(the screenshot took before clone, and I formatted SSD after I find out the clone doesn't work properly.)

I know it's possible to setup the ssd with a fresh install, but I don't want to download those update patches for win10, and reinstall everything....

please help.




edit: randomly doing some stuff.....
the ssd magically shows up in bios setting.....

 

[Minox]

Personally I'd probably give EaseUS Partition Master a try to see if you can get it to work that way, but the best choice would be to do a proper reinstall.

 

[Sonansune]

Personally I'd probably give EaseUS Partition Master a try to see if you can get it to work that way, but the best choice would be to do a proper reinstall.

thanks, I will try it now.

 

[Originality]

I've used Aomei disk cloning successfully several times in the last month to upgrade a HDD to SSD. It's shareware, so free to use but to unlock certain features (like system cloning, as opposed to simple drive cloning) it requires you to post a few lines advertising it in a forum/blog/social media site and link the url. I did that with my GBATemp blog and promptly deleted it after the feature was unlocked.

Edit: to get a drive to boot in UEFI mode, it has to be formatted with GPT (not MBR). I think it also needs a couple specific files somewhere (efi.boot or something like that, I forget). You may also need to check your BIOS settings that Secure Boot is disabled. The best way to get UEFI mode working with Windows is to clean install it on a blank GPT formatted drive. You can then migrate your apps/settings in (e.g. Make a backup or save state before you start).

 

[Sonansune]

I've used Aomei disk cloning successfully several times in the last month to upgrade a HDD to SSD. It's shareware, so free to use but to unlock certain features (like system cloning, as opposed to simple drive cloning) it requires you to post a few lines advertising it in a forum/blog/social media site and link the url. I did that with my GBATemp blog and promptly deleted it after the feature was unlocked.

Edit: to get a drive to boot in UEFI mode, it has to be formatted with GPT (not MBR). I think it also needs a couple specific files somewhere (efi.boot or something like that, I forget). You may also need to check your BIOS settings that Secure Boot is disabled. The best way to get UEFI mode working with Windows is to clean install it on a blank GPT formatted drive. You can then migrate your apps/settings in (e.g. Make a backup or save state before you start).

thanks!
somehow I abled the ssd in UEFI mode about 3 hours ago....